Author: Phil Bowyer

Africanarra 2025 is the Africa Reggio Emilia Alliance’s (AREA) annual story telling initiative in which Reggio Emilia inspired schools in Africa can participate by co-creating their own story telling events over the weekend of 23 – 25 May 2025 for #Africanarra “Through the Eyes of a child: Everything is Possible”

After learning about cameras, we shared what we noticed about our still images, focused on the mouth, the eyes, the nose, eyelashes, lids, cultures, and the emotions we feel, to name a few.

Constructing 3D Shapes Our Foundation Phase in our natural learning environment, using ‘loose parts’ outside to construct 3-Dimensional shapes.

The child-led task: to power a torch, that has one or two lights.

‘A Treasure Hunt – for 3D Shapes!’ “We’re going on a Treasure Hunt” – “Hooray!” the Foundation Phase reply – “‘”Walk around, record what you notice, share what you notice.”

Our Juniors (8-10-year-olds) wrote their own play, in English; added music and built their own sets, in Creative Arts and then performed it for their families.

Week six of Monday morning prayers, with the Intermediates.

The Intermediate’s applying what they have learnt about 3-Dimensional shapes and reflecting x and y axes in Mathematics, to clay.